Claim · model-written summary
Adoption of PBS reduced the total cost of cultivation by Rs. 15,500/ha/year in the cotton-maize system.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume5 - Treatment
- PBSe5
- Outcome
- total cost of cultivatione5
- Direction
- reducede5
- Value
- Rs.15,500/ha/yeare5
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Verbatim
e5“Adoption of ZT and PBSin the cotton – maize cropping system reduced the total cost of cultivationby Rs. 12,000/ha/year and Rs.15,500/ha/year, respectively”
Title
Veeraputhiran. R Madras Agricultural Journal 2020. doi:10.29321/maj.2020.000347
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage without residue incorporation recorded higher yields of cotton and maize than the other treatments, on par with zero tillage with 100% and 50% residue management.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage without residue incorporation gave the highest cotton equivalent yield, 3584 and 4046 kg/ha in the first and second year.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage (ZT) minimized the labour requirement by 20 laborers per crop per ha compared with conventional tillage in the cotton-maize system.
- Intervention effect Adoption of ZT reduced the total cost of cultivation by Rs. 12,000/ha/year in the cotton-maize system.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage without residue application gave a higher gross income.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage with residue application gave higher net income and BC ratio.
- Recommendation Zero tillage was technically feasible and comparable with conventional tillage without residue application on yield, with higher economic benefits and lesser labour use; the authors conclude it can be adopted.